Stacey Michelle Kennedy was a 52-year-old woman when she was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee, on November 29, 2021. Her final confirmed encounter occurred near Lilly Valley Way in West Nashville, where a Metropolitan Nashville police officer spoke with her after responding to a report that she was trespassing. The conversation was captured by the officer’s body-worn camera, creating a documented final sighting of Stacey at a particularly vulnerable time in her life. She had moved from Kingston, Tennessee, to Nashville in 2015 while seeking treatment for a continuing struggle with substance use. By 2021, she was experiencing homelessness and living on the streets. Her sister, Angie Becker, later explained that Stacey’s behavior had become increasingly erratic because she was not taking medication she needed. Even amid those difficulties, Stacey remained a loved sister and family member whose sudden silence caused immediate and lasting concern.
Stacey and her sister had previously spoken by telephone frequently, making the eventual end of those calls deeply troubling. When Angie could no longer reach her and discovered that Stacey’s bank account showed no continuing activity, she feared that something was seriously wrong. She filed a missing-person report with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department on April 13, although the publicly available account does not specify the year of that filing. Investigators determined that Stacey’s bank card had last been used at the Belle Meade Kroger on Harding Pike on December 14, shortly after her final confirmed police encounter. That transaction offered one of the few traces of her movements after November 29, but it did not reveal where she went or whom she may have encountered. Afterward, the ordinary indicators that could have helped investigators follow her path—including telephone information and financial activity—simply stopped. Detective Elizabeth Mills of Metro Nashville’s Cold Case-Homicide/Missing Persons Unit said investigators were running out of leads as the normal means of tracking Stacey produced no further information.
Stacey’s family did not rely solely on the formal investigation. Relatives searched for her and contacted people who worked directly with Nashville’s homeless community, hoping that someone might remember seeing her, providing assistance to her, or speaking with her after the last documented encounters. Those efforts produced no confirmed answers. Police also extensively searched the areas of West Nashville that Stacey was known to frequent, but no publicly reported evidence established what happened after her bank card was used. Her circumstances made the search especially difficult: without stable housing, a consistent address, dependable telephone contact, or routine financial transactions, there were few reliable points from which investigators could reconstruct her movements. Metro Nashville’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Section is responsible for investigating adult disappearances originating in Davidson County, including cases in which a person may be endangered, disabled, missing involuntarily, or otherwise believed to be at risk.
At the time she disappeared, Stacey was described as 4 feet 11 inches tall, with shoulder-length brown-and-gray hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing jeans and a blue hooded sweatshirt and carrying a bright blue sleeping bag, an important identifying detail because it may have been visible to motorists, residents, business employees, outreach workers, or others in West Nashville. Her sister’s appeals reflected the anguish of a family living without certainty. Angie said the absence of answers had taken a toll on the entire family and pleaded for anyone with even a seemingly minor detail to contact police. Investigators similarly emphasized that one small observation could connect to another and eventually lead to a meaningful breakthrough. Information may be reported to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, whose missing-person resources direct members of the public to police or Crime Stoppers when they know something about an unresolved disappearance.
Stacey’s case is ultimately the story of a vulnerable woman whose documented trail ended abruptly. She came to Nashville seeking help, later endured homelessness and health-related difficulties, and remained in contact with her family until that contact unexpectedly ceased. The November 29, 2021 body-camera encounter near Lilly Valley Way established her last confirmed sighting, while the December 14 bank-card use at a Kroger on Harding Pike became the last publicly reported sign connected to her. Searches of familiar areas, outreach within the homeless community, reviews of financial activity, and appeals for public assistance did not explain where she went. At the center of the case is a family that continues to need truthful information and a woman whose life cannot be reduced to the hardships she faced. Stacey Michelle Kennedy was a sister and a person worthy of care, and the unresolved overview remains painfully simple: after being seen in West Nashville and leaving behind only a few traceable records, Stacey vanished, and the publicly available evidence has not explained what happened to her.
Last Seen: Nov 29, 2021
